Anybody else notice this with Win 8.1?
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I usually sleep the desktop computer instead of shutting it down. I sleep it and restart it perhaps 3 times per day. I've noticed that the more days I go without rebooting it, the more page file chugging is required to switch between applications. And if there is an application that hasn't been in the foreground for more than 24 hours, the system virtually comes to a stop until it pages in all the memory associated with it when I finally bring it forward. Anyway, if the machine has gone several days without rebooting, then it's painful to switch applications because of all the hard drive access.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Was there any Windows version that handled this better? Not as far as I can remember - unless it's Windows 7, I always shut it down completely because of its quick boot up on a SSD.
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Was there any Windows version that handled this better? Not as far as I can remember - unless it's Windows 7, I always shut it down completely because of its quick boot up on a SSD.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
Yeah, I never noticed it on 7.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I usually sleep the desktop computer instead of shutting it down. I sleep it and restart it perhaps 3 times per day. I've noticed that the more days I go without rebooting it, the more page file chugging is required to switch between applications. And if there is an application that hasn't been in the foreground for more than 24 hours, the system virtually comes to a stop until it pages in all the memory associated with it when I finally bring it forward. Anyway, if the machine has gone several days without rebooting, then it's painful to switch applications because of all the hard drive access.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
I notice it regularly. I do not put it to sleep, but hibernate. So each time I close the lid, it goes to hibernation mode. Yes, same thing happens. Each time it takes more than 3-5 days, applications run a lot slower til it comes to a stage where I have to restart the laptop. :laugh:
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I notice it regularly. I do not put it to sleep, but hibernate. So each time I close the lid, it goes to hibernation mode. Yes, same thing happens. Each time it takes more than 3-5 days, applications run a lot slower til it comes to a stage where I have to restart the laptop. :laugh:
The shit I complain about It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem ~! Firewall !~
Glad to know I'm not imagining it! :)
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I usually sleep the desktop computer instead of shutting it down. I sleep it and restart it perhaps 3 times per day. I've noticed that the more days I go without rebooting it, the more page file chugging is required to switch between applications. And if there is an application that hasn't been in the foreground for more than 24 hours, the system virtually comes to a stop until it pages in all the memory associated with it when I finally bring it forward. Anyway, if the machine has gone several days without rebooting, then it's painful to switch applications because of all the hard drive access.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Yeah, I never noticed it on 7.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
I run my various Windows 7 machines (a few at home and a couple more at work) for days and weeks on end without ever shutting them down. They go to sleep, not hibernate, come back up fast and never seem to show the slowdown of which you write.
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I usually sleep the desktop computer instead of shutting it down. I sleep it and restart it perhaps 3 times per day. I've noticed that the more days I go without rebooting it, the more page file chugging is required to switch between applications. And if there is an application that hasn't been in the foreground for more than 24 hours, the system virtually comes to a stop until it pages in all the memory associated with it when I finally bring it forward. Anyway, if the machine has gone several days without rebooting, then it's painful to switch applications because of all the hard drive access.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Thank goodness I'm still using Windows 7. I've never noticed that problem with W7, and I often don't reboot my laptop for weeks. Marc
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I usually sleep the desktop computer instead of shutting it down. I sleep it and restart it perhaps 3 times per day. I've noticed that the more days I go without rebooting it, the more page file chugging is required to switch between applications. And if there is an application that hasn't been in the foreground for more than 24 hours, the system virtually comes to a stop until it pages in all the memory associated with it when I finally bring it forward. Anyway, if the machine has gone several days without rebooting, then it's painful to switch applications because of all the hard drive access.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
:sigh: Windows 7, 32 bit os, 5400 disk, flaky VS 2013 debugger and enough corporate crap wear to drown a dog and I need to reboot twice a DAY. Stop your bitching!
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I usually sleep the desktop computer instead of shutting it down. I sleep it and restart it perhaps 3 times per day. I've noticed that the more days I go without rebooting it, the more page file chugging is required to switch between applications. And if there is an application that hasn't been in the foreground for more than 24 hours, the system virtually comes to a stop until it pages in all the memory associated with it when I finally bring it forward. Anyway, if the machine has gone several days without rebooting, then it's painful to switch applications because of all the hard drive access.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
I've never noticed that on my desktop/laptop running 8.1, but I can tell you that my wife's PC (running Windows 7) did stuff like that for a few weeks back in February and she thought it was just IE acting badly (which of course, is completely believable). Then one day she couldn't open any of her files, because some CryptoLocker malware had been encrypting all of the files on her hard-drive and was now blackmailing her to pay them $750 in bitcoin via a secure site using the Tor browser. So... I'd suggest running MalwareBytes or something similar, just in case.
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I usually sleep the desktop computer instead of shutting it down. I sleep it and restart it perhaps 3 times per day. I've noticed that the more days I go without rebooting it, the more page file chugging is required to switch between applications. And if there is an application that hasn't been in the foreground for more than 24 hours, the system virtually comes to a stop until it pages in all the memory associated with it when I finally bring it forward. Anyway, if the machine has gone several days without rebooting, then it's painful to switch applications because of all the hard drive access.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Yes, it usually happen to me. Sometimes even more strange thing happen, "Hibernate" option from the Shutdown menu completely remove. So instead of putting the computer to Hibernate, i have to shutdown. And yes, after 3-4 days of sleep/hibernate cycles, systems comes to its knees, and again i have no choice but to shutdown.
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I usually sleep the desktop computer instead of shutting it down. I sleep it and restart it perhaps 3 times per day. I've noticed that the more days I go without rebooting it, the more page file chugging is required to switch between applications. And if there is an application that hasn't been in the foreground for more than 24 hours, the system virtually comes to a stop until it pages in all the memory associated with it when I finally bring it forward. Anyway, if the machine has gone several days without rebooting, then it's painful to switch applications because of all the hard drive access.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
